On Sunday 22 December 2002 06:50, John Lowell wrote:
OK, Ole, I can get /home/jlowell/Mail/inbox/cur copied to /media/floppy. Attempts to copy /media/floppy to /dev/fd0 before or after mounting it result in /dev/fd0 being declared a non-directory, however. I'm entering the commands as root user. What in heavens name do I have to do to get these files from /media/floppy onto the disk? Is it really this hard to copy files to a floppy disk in Linux? God!
The /media/floppy directory IS [the contents of the filesystem on] the floppy! The disk controller module may delay the /physical/ writing to the floppy, and hold the files in a buffer - that's why you MUST explicitly unmount the drive before removing the disk. Dylan -- "Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not, we are Between the wars"